[pdftex] pdtex + latex + cygwin (or linux)

[George N. White III]

On 7/24/07, Kewley, J (John) <j.kewley at dl.ac.uk> wrote:

> > > I have been getting for the past couple of years using the old
> > > tools that come with cygwin.
> >
> > cygwin includes pdf(la)tex in its standard tex package, so
> > unless you need the
> > latest cutting edge version, all you need is the standard cygwin setuo
> > it would seem.
>
> I couldn't persuade the version of pdftex in cygwin (Version 3.141592-1.21a)
> to recognise the justification and protruding options I was trying to test.
> Is there something else I need to do to enable them? I presumed it was because
> my version was outdated.

The microtype package (current version is 2.0) lists the capabilities
of the various
pdftex versions since 0.14f.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia